Kaufman to Adapt Chaos Walking

Following the wild success of The Hunger Games, it looks like Lionsgate will be developing yet another young adult novel series: Patrick Ness's Chaos Walking.

Deadline reports that writer Charlie Kaufman (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Being John Malkovich) is set to adapt the first book in the trilogy, The Knife of Never Letting Go. The story centers on a dystopian world where there are no women and all living creatures can hear each other's thoughts. Only the young Todd Hewitt has the key to stopping planetary destruction.

Kaufman is also working on directing his script Frank or Francis, a Hollywood satire set to music in which a movie director feuds with an internet blogger.